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SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress yesterday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings.

Following a ruling by the Trinidad Court of Appeal a month earlier, murder-accused Joel King of the twin-Island Republic became the first person on March 25th, to be granted bail on a capital offence in a hundred years. 

(Trinidad Express) How was a dead woman able to sell a parcel of land in Trinidad years after her death?

Police from the Anna Regina Station District, Essequibo Coast on Saturday night engaged in a ‘White Light Campaign’ where a number of vehicles were stopped and examined for coloured lights resulting in eleven vehicles being detained.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – Thousands of residents of a northern New Mexico mountain valley were told to evacuate yesterday as a wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of structures threatened to overrun the valley within days, officials said.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Friday stated the Government’s commitment to use the proceeds from the oil and gas industry to develop and improve the lives of all Guyanese.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron defeated his far-right rival Marine Le Pen today by a comfortable margin, securing a second term and heading off what would have been a political earthquake.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of COVID-19 have erected fences outside residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city’s 25 million people indoors.

TAOS, N.M.,  (Reuters) – Wind-driven wildfires destroyed hundreds of structures in northern New Mexico and forced thousands to flee mountain villages as blazes burned unusually early in the year in the parched U.S.

GAICO Construction and General Services Inc on Saturday increased its dredging capabilities with the addition of a new US$7.5 million dredge that was commissioned by President Irfaan Ali at the company’s Nismes, West Bank Demerara wharf.

Although it was initially suspected that Paishnarine Hansraj, 25, and Justin Teixeira, 34, the two men found dead in the Guyana Marriott Hotel parking lot on Saturday, may have overdosed on a drug, investigators have been told that a substance found near them is suspected to be sodium cyanide, a poison which can be fatal in small doses.

With Guyana receiving its first one million barrels of oil from the offshore Liza Unity oil platform, it is expected to net around US$106 million from the sale of the lift amid a huge spike in international fuel prices President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that government used the spot sale system to sell its share to ExxonMobil, a provision catered for under the crude lifting agreement, even as it continues to seek out a marketer or long term buyer for the remainder of its lifts.

An Abram Zuil man, who was wanted for allegedly causing the death of a Courts branch manager in Essequibo, was apprehended on Friday after years of evading police.

After finding unexpected success with growing grapes locally, farmer Devon Gilead has his sights set on one day opening the country’s first vineyard—a dream that he is slowly making a reality.

In preparation for the massive construction works to be undertaken at its Toroparu mine site, Canadian gold mining company Gran Colombia Mining (GCM) has commenced works on the 235 kilo-metres of access road stretching from Itabali, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, in Region Seven.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday, announced the construction of a new four-lane highway from Crane, on the West Coast of Demerara, to Schoonord, on the West Bank.

Pivoting from its focus on serving the needs of Guyana’s oil and gas sector, Ramps Logistics is now seeking to establish a foothold as a leading agricultural produce exporter and supplier to the North American market for Guyanese farmers.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol yesterday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern city and said its forces did not need to take the plant.

The Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU) is making efforts to position itself as a reputable bargaining agent for workers in the oil and gas sector, where it says locals face issues that include unequal pay, uncertified sick leave benefits, and lack of personal protective equipment.

Continuing their support for the Richard Faikall Police College, located at Suddie, in Region Two, Jay and Sylvia Sobhraj Foundation on Wednesday donated new computer systems and desk and chair units to the college.